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On the Police Logs 10.03.24

Thu, 10/03/2024 - 07:17

Montauk

Police responded to the 7-Eleven about a report of two intoxicated individuals at around noon on Saturday. After arriving, they saw a car parked in a handicap spot with no tag displayed. Noticing that the men were in no condition to drive, police “secured” the car.

Sag Harbor

A woman reported a “rather unpleasant aroma in the air” near Main Street on Saturday at around noon. An officer informed the woman that the smell was likely coming from the nearby sewage plant. The woman disagreed, claiming she is “very experienced in these smells,” and asked the officer to search each garbage can for a dead deer. The officer assured her that the garbage is emptied daily.

The next evening, a man on Long Island Avenue reported juveniles throwing objects at passing vehicles. Police found the children, who said that they were indeed throwing marshmallows at passing cars. They left the area after being informed of the danger of throwing things at moving vehicles.

Springs

A Lotus Avenue woman reported an incident with her “neighbor’s caretaker” on the afternoon of Sept. 23. The woman pointed her finger at her face, the caretaker said, so she had pushed the woman away. Neither person was injured during the confrontation.

A man called police on the evening of Sept. 25 to say that two unknown people were on his boat at the Head of the Harbor. Police arrived and found one man in the boat. He told police that a friend had said the boat belonged to him, so he had been in it for the past few days. The friend returned and told police it “looked like a nice boat,” according to the report, so the two had been “hanging out” on it. The outcome was blacked out on the police report.

A woman who lives on Gardiner Avenue woman reported receiving five counterfeit $2 bills while selling eggs on the morning of Sept. 15. Police said the bills looked legitimate.

Wainscott

Police filed a larceny report after a woman had her Kate Spade wallet stolen while shopping at HomeGoods on the afternoon of Sept. 26. While there, another woman walked close to her cart before leaving “in a hurry,” the shopper told police. The shopper contacted her bank, which found a series of charges, including one for $7,945 from Louis Vuitton, and blocked future charges.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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